Live Oak High School - Quercus Yearbook (Live Oak, CA)

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I' li r P I I P F' W! l I' L' -. Found enTered in Mrs. MiTchell's diary for The year oT I96O were These pages: February 28: Today I was shopping in San Francisco. While walking on Mission STreeT, I saw Maxiline KiTchens Towing Three IiTTle red heads along behind her. She had married Jimmy Armocido in l956 and was in The ciTy, shopping for farm equipmenT. As I was Talking To her, I saw a beggar siTTing on The sidewalk. I recognized him as Glenn Fryer. I-le is a professional pauper, and he is worfh Three million dollars, I hear. I wenT inTo Kay's Jewelers abouT my charge a,ccounT. Who should greeT me buT Daniel OTT. The manager. I-le is also co-owner. As I passed, Laverne Felber came sTaggering ouT. I-le bumped inTo me, knocking me down, and a very well-dressed genTleman lwhom I recognized as Loyd MerriTTl helped me up. Loyd's companion was Marie Severini. She had The loveliesT silver fox coaTl She is now a famous movie acTress. playing STelIa Dallas. As I was brushing myselT oTf, I dropped a quarTer. Three liTTle scrawny children ran ouT from a house and pounced on The quarTer. They belonged To J. E. Spencer and The former Velma McBride. She looked worn To a Trazzle, buT J. E. looked as happy-go- lucky as ever. AT Playland I saw a barker Tor The fun house. This barker was none oTher Than our handsome Lynn MeTferd. ReTa Lane, his wiTe, is a superb Tan dancer. BeTTy Adams married Wendell I-I., of course, and They have ThirTeen children. There are four seTs of Twins and a seT of quinTupleTs, cared for by The Unifed STaTes govern- menT. Free gifTs for This family are graTefully received by The governmenT. Wearing a sailor uniform, lanky Dallas Lewis passed me. I-langing on his arm was his beauTiful wife, Jean, and Trailing behind Them was Their liTTIe son, such a beauTiful blond boy! Whaf news! Merle Howell has aT long lasT surrendered To domesTicaTion. Today I received a leTTer from his wife, RuTh Parfridge I-lowell. She spoke of The couples who had married since high school graduaTion. There were Marceline Rakow and Jimmy McElroy, Elvin Fillmore and Rosemary Wicker, Alice Jane Thayer and Eddie Kilby, Gerlclean KiTchens and J. D. Vaughn, Dona Kirkpafrick and Dick Bumpus, Naomi Reid and Leslie KraTz, WhisTIe GaiTher and RuTh PuTman. The McEIroys now manage a naTion-wide Frozen Food Locker Company. The Fill- mores run a series of chicken haTcheries. The Kilbys have a very modern garage business in Live Oak. The Vaughns operaTe a rival one. The Bumpuses own a greaT mansion in Beverly Hills. Dona inherifed a greaT deal of money, iT seems. The KraTzes are mission- aries To India. They helped To calm The Jewish and Arabian people, and To seTTle Their dispuTes in Troubled PalesTine. The GaiThers have Red and WhiTe chain sTores all over The world now. For This world-wide enTerprise, The Russian governmenT insisTed ThaT GaiTher be our foreign diplomaT To Russia. In spiTe oT This honor, WhisTle is sTill waiTing Tor an aTomic war. Tom GalbreaTh inherifed Two-Thirds oT The sTock in Penney's Company. I-Ie mar-

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' OPHECY ried Georgene GarreTT, and They are The parenTs of a large, happy Tamily, Twelve in all: enough players Tor a TooTbaII squad plus a cheer leader. The long-drawn ouT engagemenT of Doris Lewis and Roy Richey conTinues. I wonder whaT happened To Arnold! Roy is a Tamous archiTecT, and she is a Tashionable hair sTyIisT of naTionaI repuTaTion. Marianne Spilman is a chic dress designer. RecenTIy she won The prize given by The InTernaTionaI CommiTTee for The besT dress of Tomorrow. Zelma STone is now one of The richesT women in The world. She is known as The Hair-Pin Heiress. and inheriTed enough money To keep herself and her husband, Alan lwho was from Nevada CiTy, They Tell mel in grand sTyIe for The resT oT The cenTury. Carl Aldiridge was voTed The BesT Dressed Man in The UniTed STaTes This year. There was an arTicIe abouT him and his ThirTy-one suiTs in Today's ediTion of The New York Times. He works in The BurgermeisTer Brewery, and so do Leo Bachman and Jack Bendar, his high school cIassmaTes. Ray Benzel and Raymond Johnson manage The New York Tirm of criminal lawyers, under The name oT Dip, SnuTIi and Sneeze. They always were comical characTers of The Marx BroThers Type. John Couch has gone inTo The Olympics Tor his second year in succession. LasT year he Took TirsT place in pole vauITing and seT a new record oT I9 TeeT IO inches, over The Tormer one of I7 TeeT 6 inches. Ernie Eisenhaur Turned up Too, billed as The TasTesT Thing on Two TeeT. He runs The mile in I minuTe and IO seconds. Lowell Kilby puT The shoT 67 TeeT lasT year, buT he wasn'T There This year, as he developed gouT. WaITer Gelardi is welTerweighT champion in boxing for his IOTh year, so I've heard. Who would ever have ThoughT iTI BuT Then his manager. Joe Huber, always did have push. I saw Lee Risenhoover The oTher day. He and Wanda STine were married back in 5I and They have Three lovely liTTle brown-eyed girls and one liTTle blond baby boy. Ginger Edwards has long since been dead. She died in I95I when she Tound ThaT a boy she had been TIirTing wiTh all Through a baskeTball game Turned ouT To be PeTer Lawford, The movie acTor. Lavada Cole, aTTer making a name as a figure skaTer in The Olympics aT Canada in I955, Tinally seTTIed down for a IiTeIong honeymoon aT Niagara Falls. She married Harold CoTTeIT To whom she has been engaged since her high school days aT old Live Oak High School. I hope To caTch up wiTh oTher high school sTudenTs some day, buT now I musT reTurn To my anaTomy class in New York's mosT fashionable medical school, IocaTed on Park avenue, near Grand CenTraI. g So long, diary. MILBREY MITCHELL P. S. Incidenfally, in I962, Mrs. MiTcheII died from hearT failure. broughT on by a shock. She heard ThaT one of her former pupils, Hoover GaIbreaTh, had won an Oscar and had accrediTed his success To her Teaching.